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The town of Signal Mountain is considering fine tuning its noise ordinance to clear up some of the static around what constitutes a nuisance.
“It’s just an issue of identifying the fact that we have an ordinance that is fairly difficult to enforce because of wording,” said Signal Mountain Police Chief Boyd Veal. “We’re thinking we could probably improve upon it and make it more cut and dry as to what is and what is not an acceptable noise level.”
He said officials are looking at remodeling the town’s ordinance after that of the city of Chattanooga, which says anything over a certain decibel level as measured from within a neighbor’s house is a violation.
However, Veal added that the ordinance would be modified before going to the Town Council for approval and could not say what determinants would be used.
“As far as formulating that ordinance or determining what levels or what times be contained in that ordinance, we’re not there yet,” he said. “This is very preliminary. That meeting (with Town Council representatives) was basically to discuss the concept of changing our ordinance in moving toward an ordinance that’s similar to what Chattanooga has.”
According to Veal and Town Manager Honna Rogers, the discussion comes as the result of feedback from citizens bothered by noise.
“(The problem) is something that is very consistent and always has been,” Veal said. “The whole idea is to keep from having that noise, whatever it may be, infringe upon someone else.”
But with an ineffectual noise ordinance, Rogers said it can be hard to determine who is being infringed upon in such cases.
“Our noise ordinance currently is a little vague. It just says, basically, you shouldn't have loud noise,” said Rogers.
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